Cultivator blade



Aug. 30, 1927.

' M RAMSE'Y CULTTVATOR BLADE Filed Aug. 26, 1925 Patented Aug. 30,1927. n i 'i v y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC 'Lif- MARGELLUS RAMSEY, OF NORTH GIRARD', PENNSYLVANIA.

CULTIVATOR BLADE.

Application led August 26, 1926. Seria1 No. 131,690.

This invention relates to a cult-ivator The tooth constituting the present invenblade or tooth, one of the objects being to tion differs from the ordinary tooth in that provide a reversible device of this character one side edge thereof is curved backwardly which can be applied readily to the standor rounded as at 8 so as to provide a laterard of a cultivator and which is so shaped vally deflecting surface t along one side of and constructed as to make 'a clean out the'tooth. The otherside portion of the through the soil and thedveg'etation thereon. tooth has a transversely rounded recess 5 n A further object is to provide a tooth of extending longitudinally within the front this character which will turn the loosened face thereof, the outerv side wall of this re- 10 soil onto the grass or Weeds.

A still further object is to provide a cultudinal cutting edge 6.

tivator tooth which can be worked close to It will be apparent that4 when a tooth is a row of plants Without covering them and `Constructed as'described the cutting edge 6 which can be pulled through the soil with 4Vwill shear easily. through the soil and sod less power than ordinarily required. in the path thereof and the opposed longi- With the foregoing and other objects in tudinal edge portions of the'tooth Willact view which will appear as the description to throw the loosened soil laterally 4away proceeds, the invention resides in the comfrom the tooth and away from the plant or bination and arrangement of parts and in plants adjacent the cutting edge 6. Obvithe details of construction hereinafter de'- ously, therefore, this tooth can be used close scribed and claimed, it being understood to a row of plants Without danger of coverthat changes in ythe precise embodiment of ing them.

the invention herein disclosed may be made The blade can be reversed to bring the within the scope of what is claimed, Without cutting edge at either side desired. In Figcess being extended forwardly to a longi- H 4departing from the spiritof the invention. ure 4 the blade has been illustrated in po In the accompanying drawings the presition with its cutting edge at the right so ferred form of the invention has been that soil will be thrown toward the left in shown. Y a direction opposite to that in which it In said drawings, would be shifted should the cutting edge be Figure l is a side elevation of a culti located at the left as in Figure 3.

vator providedl with a tooth such as oonsti- I/Vhat is claimed is: tutes the present invention. A reversible cultivator tooth having a {Figure 2 is a front elevation of the tooth.` point at each end, one side edge portion of Figure 3 is a section on line 3-3, Figthe tooth being curved backwardly and the me 2. j other side portion of the tooth having a lon- Figure 4 is a View similar to Figure 3 gitudinal recess in its front face, the outer showing a tooth with a right-hand cutting side Wall of said recess being extended foredge, a wardly to the side of the tooth to provide Referring to the figures by characters of a longitudinal cutting edge. reference 1 designates a cultivator tooth In testimony that I claim the foregoin curved from end to end and provided With as my own, I have hereto afiXed my signaa point 2 at each end. The tooth is rounded ture. transversely so as to be fitted readily against a oultivator standard S to which it MARCELLUS RAMSEY. can be attached in the usual manner. 

